My son sent me this:
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RE: What are the rules for sockpuppets here?
@otter I'm inclined to say, "Don't be a dick," but that would eliminate most of the non-sockpuppet accounts, too.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
From tumblr (I think), by way of my son; original source unknown:
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RE: Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
"Don't you fucking dare Google, or I will run you through a goddamn woodchipper."
All of Google? I am now hoping that Google bombards you with Coldplay 24/7.
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RE: Gululu - The Interactive Water Bottle Tracker
@PJH What exactly does it track? Does it track the bottle's location? 'Cuz for $129, my biggest concern would be, where did my kid leave it when he ran off to play?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
My son sent me this. It's not new, but I don't remember seeing it posted here before.
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RE: WTF Bites
The Register asked Apple about its patent strategy, just because we enjoy the ritual of sending email and having it ignored.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Another one from my son:
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks it if it's an alcoholic.
The horse considers all the bars it frequents, and it replies, "I don't think I am." The horse disappears in a *poof!*
Any student of philosophy listening to the joke will be giggling at this point, as they will, of course, be familiar with the proposition Cogito ergo sum, "I think; therefore, I am." However, to explain this ahead of time for the benefit of a listener not familiar with this would be to put de cart before de horse.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status:
#I have a job!!!!!!1!1!!1!eleven!
Contractor, indirectly for a company you've all heard of, directly for a consulting/placement company you haven't. Initial term of 3 months because fiscal year, very likely to be extended for up to 18 months. In Silicon Valley. The nice thing about the initial 3 month term is it's "temporary" — I don't know that they're going to extend it — so I can claim per diem for at least three months — maybe more, depending on whether they extend it for the entire next fiscal year in one go, or dribble out extensions a few months at a time.
I also have a phone interview with another company tomorrow. On the advice of the recruiter for the other consulting company, I'm still going to do the interview, because nothing is 100% certain until I'm actually sitting in the building working. (Insert anecdote of defense contractor who was required to assemble a team in order to bid on a contract, then didn't win the contract, so nobody on the team ever actually started working for them.)
Edit: Clarification — the "other" consulting company is the one I just accepted the job with, as opposed to the one handling the job I'm interviewing for tomorrow.
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RE: Why does :pirate suggest only black people emojis?
@bb36e Why does it not suggest any pirate emojis?
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RE: Vote of No Confidence
I said once before in a tirade that was, for me, uncharacteristically hostile, over some stupid thing that I no longer remember, that I thought CDCK deserved to go out of business, and that I hoped it would do so. (I think I may have also expressed an opinion that Jeff deserved physical abuse with a cactus, or that the collapse of CDCK should be so financially devastating to him that he should wind up living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, or both, or something; I don't quite remember any more. I kinda regretted the last part after Sam called me on it, but I was really angry at the time.)
In light of today's events, I reiterate those sentiments. CDCK, as a business, deserves to fail — spectacularly, or merely fade into obscure oblivion, I don't care. Jeff has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be utterly incompetent at software development, utterly incompetent at UX, and now utterly incompetent at PR. Nobody should ever give him another cent for anything computer-related, and his communication with the public should be limited to, "Would you like fries with that?"
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RE: Overheard at Work
Necro time!
Overheard at work:
I don't have a spec. As far as I'm concerned, everything is passing, because there's no spec to violate.
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RE: UI Bites
@Tsaukpaetra If I counted right, exactly enough to answer "FileNotFound".
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RE: In other news today...
If you thought cable companies couldn't get any worse...
An off-duty Charter Communications employee attempted to rob an 83-year-old woman a day after making a service call at her home and murdered her when she caught him in the act. Her family sued Charter, claiming they were negligent in supervising him, failed to do proper pre-employment background checks, ignored warning signs, etc. The jury agreed Charter was at fault — 90%, anyway — and awarded the family $357M in compensatory damages.
But wait; there's more! They awarded a further $7B in punitive damages. Needless to say, Charter will appeal.
Not mentioned in this version of the story, but discussed elsewhere.
- Charter continued to bill the woman for service after she was deceased.
- Charter attempted to force the suit into arbitration, which would have
- used an arbitrator of Charter's choosing,
- been secret, and
- limited damages to the amount of her final bill.
- Charter's attempt for force arbitration allegedly included forging documents in which the victim agreed to arbitration. There were a couple of problems with those documents.
- They were forms for paying by mail with a check, with a to accept arbitration. The family proved she paid by credit card, so she wouldn't have used those forms.
- Like many such forms, it had a version date. The date of that version of the form was two years after the woman was murdered. Therefore, she couldn't have used those forms, unless she was still paying her bill from beyond the grave.
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RE: I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire
@m_adams said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@jbert said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@lolwhat They could always add an auger to the front so the kid can drill through.
But that would be Boring...
My son said in response to this:
Y'all are a bunch of children in adult suits.
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RE: Internet of shit
@TimeBandit Yay, more buzzwords. Apparently onboarding now means "making sure that devices are properly configured and connected to the cloud" in addition to its dubious usage as HR-speak for getting a new employee started.
I have an alternative process for securing IoT devices: overboarding. They should be adequately secure under a few thousand feet of seawater.
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RE: Matters. things of Twitter order the : Hey on
@Lorne_Kates said:
The winter equinox. The days are shortest. The nights are longest.
Not sure if intentional, but my pendantry cannot allow that stand uncorrected. And since it's Lorne, I'll throw in an extra helping of dickweedery, just for you.
Winter solstice, dumbass. If the days are short and the nights are long (or vice versa), it's not an equinox, which is when the days and nights are of equal length. Even an idiot should be able to remember that. Spring and autumn equinoxes; winter and summer solstices.
@Lorne_Kates said:
And Discourse bugs are at their fullest.
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RE: Internet of shit
@TimeBandit An ember mug. Is the firmware JS? Does the CPU overheating keep your beverage hot?
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RE: WTF Bites
Cztery czteroosobowe rodziny z czterema kotami i czworgiem dzieci, mieszkające na czwartym piętrze, na czwartej ulicy.
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RE: WTF Bites
My son failed his Java midterm yesterday. The exam was online and required the use of a browser extension called Proctorio. Proctorio requires access to your keyboard, network, microphone and webcam, and shares your screen, to verify that you are not cheating during the exam. I'm not sure of the details, but I'd guess any windows visible other than the exam, any keystrokes not going to the exam, any conversation, gestures at someone outside of the camera view, and moving out of view would all be flagged as cheating.
My son failed the exam because Proctorio would not allow him to take it. For some unknown reason, it could not find his webcam. He tried many times. He rebooted. He tried both the laptop's built-in webcam and a cheap old external one. Checked settings to make sure it was enabled. He connected to the Skype loopback test site to verify that it was working. (Proctorio found it once, but that time it couldn't find the network.)
Because it couldn't find the camera, it wouldn't even let him take the practice quiz, intended to make sure everything was working, much less the actual test. The exam had to be submitted by midnight, and he was still trying to get Proctorio to let him take it when I went to bed at around quarter-'til.
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RE: Windows and the unwanted apps [Angry rant time]
@Atazhaia FWIW, the crappy games are in Enterprise, too. You know, the version you're most likely to be fired for playing games on a corporate PC.
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RE: THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Not sure whether to put this here or the Good Ideas Thread, but my gut tells me this is the appropriate home for it. An home security camera that uses AI to tell the difference between actual problems and expected events:
https://www.light.house/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIypTbrafO2QIVVi9pCh2EFAeDEAEYASAAEgIuafD_BwE
Easy Wi-Fi setup
Danger! Danger!
We’ve implemented security protocols and privacy policies that meet the highest standards in our industry
The IoT industry? That's a very, very low bar to meet.
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RE: ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
@stillwater You should have regrets. You should regret using Bing.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Thank you. That's what I was looking for. I'd run across similar links for other memes, but not that one.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
I wasn't planning on returning, at all, but I've been following this thread, not logged in, first to find out what the hell happened, then to see how the situation developed. With this evening's changes, I don't have a reason to stay away.
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
I have resigned as administrator
I don't have a problem with you continuing to be an admin, babysitting the database, handling software updates, and so on. You do that well (apart from the notorious lack of up-to-date backups that one time).
However, you should not be performing any moderation functions (other than, perhaps, dealing with obvious spambots). You lack the interpersonal skills required for that. You have a history of communicating in a way that other people have difficulty understanding. As other people have said, a moderator needs to be articulate clearly a specific reason for a moderation action, especially one as severe as a ban. This incident has demonstrated your inability to do that.
That said, I look forward to your continued participation in the forum. I admit I have been extremely and irrationally angry with you for the last couple of days, but I have calmed down now and harbor no ill will towards you. I don't know what's happened recently, but you used to be a fun and active participant in the forum. I'd welcome continued interaction with the really weird but fun Ben who posted DF screenshots and talked incessantly about lojban. Not that I would welcome the screenshots and lojban, but I'd welcome the fun Ben who posted them.
BTW,
Tlooks at the time — YIL that one of the conditions I have is considered neurodiverse. Yay, a label, I guess.Also, sucks when you're not logged in. Really sucks diseased animal genitalia.
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RE: 🔥 Liberals need to be told that hitchhiking in Muslim countries greatly increases your chance of encounters with rapists and murderers, apparently.
she was raped and murdered
I believe this is in the wrong topic. It is ironic, perhaps even deliciously ironic, depending on how antagonistic one is toward bleeding-heart liberals, but even an idiot being raped and murdered is not funny.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
This Aviation Stack Exchange discussion on whether two planes got too close has a few amusing bits:
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
@Arantor said in Programming Memes Thread:
But we need to evolve AI beyond statistical models before that's ever realistically a consideration...
That's probably why at least some of the programmers are laughing so hard.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@adynathos said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
not sounding like a scam
It's a cryptocurrency exchange; not sounding like a scam isn't going to happen.
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RE: Discourse pricing
What you're really paying for is the support contract, or, "getting to tell Jeff what to do".
How much does it cost to get to tell Jeff to bend over?
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
purple dildos are special around here
I know the origin of most of the memes here, but I still haven't discovered how those particular objects came to be so highly regarded.
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RE: Dumb things being crowdfunded.
@cvi said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
And ... why would you care?
Suppose there exists a walking/jogging/biking trail. Further suppose this trail has a posted speed limit of 15 MPH. Suppose you are a world-class sprinter, and you are practicing sprints along this trail. You wouldn't want to get a speeding ticket from a radar-wielding cop because your tin-foil hat reflected his radar, would you?
Filed under: This makes as much sense as any other reason for wearing a tin-foil hat.
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RE: I made a dating site
@Polygeekery said in I made a dating site:
@Carnage seriously, what else did you expect? He is posting a link to a dating site that he built. A 502 is the second best thing you could have hoped for, right behind a 404.
417 Expectation Failed
416 Not Satisfiable
411 Length Required
426 Upgrade RequiredOR
402 Payment Required
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RE: WTF Bites
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
So now I get to delete every fucking wall and do it again.
It could be worse. At least you didn't crash a spacecraft into Mars.
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RE: Internet of shit
@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
3,000 times faster than the fastest mechanical breaker
Why? For household circuit breakers, at least, fast action is neither necessary nor desirable.
The purpose of a circuit breaker is, basically, to prevent fires. Electrical wiring has resistance, and as current flows through it, heat is generated. If more current flows than it is designed for, it may overheat and cause a fire.
However, 21 A through a 20 A circuit isn't going to cause it to suddenly burst into flame. Unless the overcurrent is extreme, like a lightning strike, it takes time for the wire to heat up.
This is good, because your household wiring carrying more current than it's rated for is commonplace in circuits with large motors — refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners. If you plug a refrigerator rated at, say, 15 A into a 20 A circuit, everything's cool, right? Mostly. The motor draws 15 A when it's running, which is well below the 20 A the circuit is designed to supply. However, motors have a starting current that is much higher than their running current. That 15 A motor might draw 30 or 40 A for a second or two when it starts, dropping to 15 A as it gets up to speed.
You don't want your circuit breaker to trip every time your refrigerator or air conditioner decides things have gotten warm enough it needs to do it's thing, or your washing machine starts its spin cycle. A delay of a few seconds is usually the desired behavior for a circuit breaker.
GFCI protection is a different matter. That needs to be fast-acting. That may be built into the circuit breaker, but the ground fault protection and overcurrent protection need to have different response characteristics.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
TV on in the lunchroom at work, with the sound off and closed-captions on. Talking heads are blathering about today's World Cup highlights. There's a graphic in the corner of the screen that says
2018 WORLD CUP
in white letters on a black background, and the closed-captions, also white letters on a black background, happen to be overlaid on top of that in such a way that at one point in the ongoing blather, for a brief but memorable moment, the juxtaposition readsLOOK AT THAT D CUP
.Alas, there was no D cup to look at.
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RE: Fuck this place
@admiral_p said in Fuck this place:
There are lots of pointless posts in the Garage whose only purpose is the "lol" factor.
YMBNH. That describes most, if not the entirety, of this forum. And most of the rest of the internet.
While many posts are pointless, many are informative, even in the Garage. I've learned from those discussions; I don't think any of them have actually changed my mind about anything, but at least I've learned the how people who see the world differently (i.e., wrongly ) think, and I've learned a few weak points in some of my beliefs where I need to do more research.
It's only where people argue with strawmen, ignore or misunderstand what the other person wrote, accuse the other of arguing in bad faith, and finally start flinging personal insults that the Garage becomes toxic. There's plenty of room for lively, even heated, debate without becoming nasty. There is a difference between discouraging nastiness and excessive moderation, although I don't claim to have the interpersonal skills to navigate the happy place between.